John Reuben Chapin

John Reuben Chapin was an illustrator for the Harper's Magazine. A story by Judy Chapin Buzby tells how the Chapin family was connected to Samuel FB Morse.

http://www.isledegrande.com/buzby.htm

Wikipedia note...

John R Chapin (1827-1907) was a 19th-century American artist and illustrator, who worked for Harper's Magazine. He was especially noted for a series of illustrations entitled Artist life in the highlands of New Jersey published in April 1860 which gave a realistic depiction of the daily life of miners.

JR Chapin Illustration of the great Chicago fire....

My Great Grandfather Lyman Chapin

Waterloo Daily Courier in Iowa (Thursday, August 29, 1907.) A good many years ago when comrade Lyman Chapin was a youngster in his teens some one made him a present of a calf. And then he bought another calf for which he paid a trifle more than a song. The two calves grew up to be a yoke of oxen.

That’s the way calves frequently did in those days. When these oxen were about four years old they were well “broke”.

They weighed nearly two tons and they were the most powerful yoke of cattle on the Wapsie. In 1854, Lyman sold the oxen and with the money he bought a quarter section of land in the Fremont township at $1.25 an acre. Comrade Chapin still owns that farm; it is one of the most valuable farms on the Wapsie and it would take two-thirds of the original cost of the farm to buy one acre of it now.

Springfield Massachusetts Map circa 1645

My Great Grandfather Deacon Samuel Chapin's property in Springfield, Mass is located about 3/4 of the way up on the left map. between Geo. Moxon and Thomas Reeve. Many of these land owners also had land on the other side of the Connecticut River which they used to grow their food. Samuel Chapin was one of the founders of Springfield.

Warren Buffett

Financial Wizard Warren Buffett is a descendant of Deacon Samuel Chapin through Catherine Chapin's line.

Warren Buffett Chapin Line...

Deacon Samuel Thomas Chapin     

→  Catherine Bliss Gilbert     

→  Margaret Foote  her daughter 

→  Ephraim Foote  her son 

→  Margaret Foote  his daughter 

→  Margaret Jones  her daughter 

→  Margaret Barber  her daughter 

→ Lawrence Barber  her son 

→  Ford Bela Barber  his son 

→  Stella Frances Stahl  his daughter 

→  Leila Stahl Buffet  her daughter 

→  W. Buffett  her son

Chapin Famous Cousins

All lines of the Chapin clan have some amazing people in them.

I have just started tracking it down, but here are a few:
Hannah Chapin descendants include:
Pres. Grover Cleveland and Canada PM Richard Bennett

Catherine Chapin's line includes:
Harriet Beecher-Stowe, abolitionist John Brown & Noah Webster, Clint Eastwood and Hugh Hefner

Japhet includes:
Financier JP Morgan, Artist James Chapin, Singer Harry Chapin and the rest of their musically talented family.

Henry Chapin's line includes:
Spencer Tracy

Josiah Chapin's line includes:
Sec of War Alphonso Taft and son President William Howard Taft.

William Howard Taft is my 3rd cousin 3x removed.
That's really close... our older generation of my relations
received books from the Taft Presidential library.

Elvis

One connection that Elvis Presley has to the Chapin family is through Bethiah Thurston, Wife of Capt. Seth Chapin. Elvis is my 10th cousin once removed....


Elvis Aaron Presley is my 10th cousin once removed.

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Janet Kaye (Chapin) Joens (1940)
your mother

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Lyman C. Chapin (1908)
her father

William Densmore Chapin (1869)
his father

Lyman Chapin (1835)
his father→

John Chapin (1790)
his father

Jacob Chapin (1762)
his father

John Chapin, Jr. (1730)
his father

John Chapin, Sr. (1698)
his father

Bethiah Thurston
his mother

Mary Wood, twin
her mother

Mary Pidge
her mother

Capt. Isaac B. Williams, Sr. (1638-1708)
her brother

Hannah Elizabeth Williams
his daughter

Ann Elizabeth Jett
her daughter

Mary Tapp
her daughter

Moses Tapp
her son

Elizabeth Gideon
his daughter

Lydia Wallace
her daughter

John Henry Wallace
her son

Jessie D. McDowell Presley
his son

Vernon Elvis Presley
his son

Elvis Aaron Presley
his son

Financier JP Morgan

Financier JP Morgan is a 5th great grandson of Deacon Samuel Chapin.

Some of the information about cousin JP Morgan are not necessarily written in glowing reviews. I saw a documentary recently that portrayed him as a devil when dealing with famed electrical engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla. Other biographies put him in the category of one of the great robber barons of the 19th century. A time at the booming of the industrial revolution when there were seemingly no limits to corporate greed and expansion.

John Pierpont Morgan (April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913) was an American financier, banker and art collector who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation during his time. In 1892 Morgan arranged the merger of Edison General Electric and Thomson-Houston Electric Company to form General Electric. After financing the creation of the Federal Steel Company he merged in 1901 with the Carnegie Steel Company and several other steel and iron businesses, including Consolidated Steel and Wire Company owned by William Edenborn, to form the United States Steel Corporation.

Morgan died in Rome, Italy, in 1913 at the age of 75, leaving his fortune and business to his son, John Pierpont "Jack" Morgan, Jr., and bequeathing his mansion and large book collections to The Morgan Library & Museum in New York.

At the height of Morgan's career during the early 1900s, he and his partners had financial investments in many large corporations and were accused by critics of controlling the nation's high finance. He directed the banking coalition that stopped the Panic of 1907. He was the leading financier of the Progressive Era, and his dedication to efficiency and modernization helped transform American business. Morgan redefined conservatism in terms of financial prowess coupled with strong commitments to religion and high culture.^[1]